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Rap Battle of the Week on Reddit: #Johannesburg’s Tumi vs Atlanta’s #Ness_Lee
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Two weeks ago, Club Zen in downtown Johannesburg got packed to its rafters with hip-hop afficionados who came by the carloads to support #Scrambles4Money, a South African battle rap circuit established in 2012. The auspicious Talk is Cheap event, now in its second installment, had Johannesburg’s #Tumi_Molekane and Atlanta’s Ness Lee as headliners. Tumi, a […]

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#Tumi_Molekane’s New Song
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With no Volume to his name, it seemed almost impossible to imagine South Africa-based self-proclaimed poet/emcee Tumi Molekane as a solo artist. He had released two albums before forming a band: A dream led to this and Tao of Tumi, the latter which, if memory serves right, had an accompanying anthology. Yet it’s the years between 2002 […]

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Mandela and Hip-Hop in South Africa
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Eighteen months ago, South African rapper and former frontman of The Volume, #Tumi_Molekane (stagename: Tumi) released ‘POWA’, a song which was as much a rally against women abuse as it was speculative banter in which the rapper imagined a post-Mandela South African dystopia. “When Mandela dies, who gon’ really care about us?”, he mused. That refrain [...]

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